Draft Episode for Sep 01, 2026
1 Sep 20min
Media Monday: Depp’s Second Act & The Journal’s A.I. Shrug
The besties Jon Kelly and Peter dig into Hollywood’s embrace of Johnny Depp’s comeback, proving real movie stars remain rare enough to forgive almost anything—even among the audiences likeliest to hol...
31 Aug 18min
Do Democrats Need a Rebrand?
Peter Hamby joins Dylan to decipher new polling on the Democratic Party’s perception problem—to wit, Trump may be historically unpopular, but voters still don’t love Democrats, either. Then they dig i...
29 Aug 31min
The Social Reckoning
Julia Alexander joins Peter to unpack Meta’s landmark $17 billion settlement with U.S. states over claims Instagram and Facebook harmed teens—and why fixes like two-hour limits and midnight curfews mi...
28 Aug 17min
60 Minutes of Fame
Dylan Byers joins Peter to break down 60 Minutes’ star-studded, controversy-shadowed relaunch under Bari Weiss and Nick Bilton: its new correspondents, the internal drama, and whether the show’s reput...
27 Aug 16min
A.O.C. on the Clock
Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Peter to break down Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s mounting 2028 presidential calculus, which is colliding with her new single life while she chronicles her egg-freezing journey i...
26 Aug 17min
Grassroots vs. Gigawatts
Bill Cohan joins Peter to break down the swift, bipartisan grassroots revolt against data centers and the A.I. companies racing to build them—from Josh Shapiro’s about-face in Pennsylvania to Kathy Ho...
25 Aug 20min
Media Monday: Pablo’s Paper Trail & MS NOW’s Streaming Bet
The besties Jon Kelly and Peter reunite to examine the New York Times’s uneasy relationship with creator-journalists like Pablo Torre, whose bombshell Clippers investigation—now contradicted by ESPN’s...
24 Aug 22min
